Treasury dumps BlackBerry for iPhone 5, iPad

blog You have to feel sorry sometimes for the company formerly known as Research in Motion. The company was originally a pioneer in the smartphone industry, bringing mobile email to the business masses, and it’s still trying hard to innovate and deliver great solutions to smartphone buyers. But the company’s new Z10 and Q10 handsets released last month, as good as they are, may be too little, too late, to save it in Australia. The latest major organisation to reveal its plans to ditch the hallowed BlackBerry is the Federal Department of the Treasury. ZDNet reports (we recommend you click here for the full article):

“Over the next month and a half, the Australian Department of Treasury will ditch its fleet of BlackBerry mobile phones in favour of iPhone 5s, according to chief information officer Peter Alexander.”

Only problem I feel is that Apple products _are not_ business grade products by a long shot.

Having to support Apple iPhone & iPad as a lowly Level 1 support tech I every time a user changes their log in password, it breaks their iPhone & iPad sync.
This creates so many calls into my desk, it’s just a complete waste of money, doesn’t happen with Blackberry though, rarely have an issue.

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